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Tuesday, January 18, 2011

The Japanese Penis Festival

I'm deep in the bowels of my next work in progress. This one is set in Japan, and although I've never been, I find a lot of the customs and traditions fascinating. For example: Did you know that every year on the first Sunday in April, in Kawasaki Japan, there is a festival called

Kanamara Matsuri (かなまら祭り "Festival of the Steel Phallus")

Oh yeah. That's right. You know...it's springtime, folks start thinking about cleaning house, planting gardens...and penises.The festival is centered around a local penis-venerating shrine where prostitutes used to go to pray for protection against STDs. Reports are unclear as to whether praying to a penis actually works, but hey...do what feels right ladies.

Can you imagine a festival like this in the states? Can you picture your mother wearing those glasses? Seriously. Here I thought Kawasaki's claim to fame was a motorcycle. See what one learns online?

I'm pretty sure half the fun of these chocolate coated bananas is watching people eat them.

Now I know you're thinking--"But Olivia, you said it was a festival of a STEEL phallus. What does that mean?" Okay, I'll tell you, but remember...you asked!

There is a legend of a sharp-toothed demon that hid inside the vagina of a woman and gnawed off her new husband's junk on their wedding night. The woman went to a blacksmith for help (of course!) who made an iron phallus to break the demon's teeth.

Praise the iron phallus!

I don't know about you folks, but my local county fair is starting to look really lame.

I want you all to think about this while you're out hiding Easter eggs for the kiddos, and making a nice ham for dinner: This is how you could be celebrating spring, if only you lived in Kawasaki Japan.

As a side note, that blacksmith went on to become a billionaire by adding a vibration device.

Okay, I made that part up :)

So now I'm wondering if I could set my work in progressin Kawasaki. It might make for some entertaining education.

I know part of this is because it's almost 3am where I am, but I sat here blinking like a virgin in a whorehouse. I had no frickin' idea this went on. So much for the inscrutable Japanese. These folks look really happy!

You have pictured a large WOOD phallus that is carved each year. People take turns riding it in the street. I believe I have seen pictures of people sitting on it as it slides down a hill, too, like riding a toboggan hard on.

The STEEL phallus is in the temple. It's not that large, really -- although I am not saying size isn't important. I have seen images of another, small, steel phallus that women straddle as a means of blessing their babymakers.

I have a post related to the Festival of the Steel Phallus and the American fear of the penis at my site: http://www.scottseesthings.blogspot.com